The votes are in and the winners chosen for the 2025 EDGE Awards. This annual awards program recognizes new components, services and other technological developments launched in the past year by the design and engineering community.
Over 60 innovations were submitted for the 2025 awards across 11 categories such as motion control components, robotics and industrial controllers. Winners were chosen by the readers of Power & Motion and the other engineering-focused brands which are part of parent company EndeavorB2B including Automation World, Control, Control Design, Electronic Design, Machine Design, and Microwaves & RF.
A winner and two honorees have been named for each of the 11 product categories in this year’s program as well as a Leading EDGE Winner which is the technology that received the most votes overall.
Winners and honorees are highlighted below with links to additional details on each technology.
Leading EDGE Winner
Marvell Ara 3 nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Optical DSP Platform from Marvell Technology
The Leading EDGE Winner for the 2025 EDGE Awards is Marvell Technology’s Marvell Ara 3 nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Optical DSP Platform. This digital signal processor integrates eight 200-Gb/s electrical lanes and eight 200-Gb/s optical channels, enabling up to 1.6 Tb/s of throughput in a compact, standard module form factor that suites the data processing needs of artificial intelligence (AI) and other data heavy applications.
Learn more about the Ara 3 nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Optical DSP Platform from Electronic Design in the article “3-nm Optical DSP Meets AI's Need for Speed in Data Centers.”
Winners and Honorees in 11 Categories
AI Data Analytics
Technologies submitted in this category include machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) hardware and software that incorporates or is designed to improve product quality, supply chain management and production throughput.
Winner
TMS320F28P550SJ C2000™ 32-bit MCU with integrated NPU from Texas Instruments
Honorees
AI Dashboard Vision from Arch Systems
Cabling & Enclosures
This category includes hardware for holding controls and electronics as well as monitoring the temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. inside the enclosure, such as terminal blocks and cabinet coolers.
Winner
Honorees
Enclosure Protector Attachment (EPA) from Inventive Resources, Inc.
Communications & Networks
Eligible technologies for this category included wireless and wired systems, modules and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules and systems, including I/O modules and cloud communications.
Winner
Morse Micro MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow SoC from Morse Micro
Honorees
Computing Hardware, Software and Systems
Edge computing devices and interfaces, as well as associated compute, storage, design and analysis systems were the technologies considered in this category.
Winner
OPDPRO.CARE from Opdenhoff Technologie GmbH
Honorees
Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform from Ambiq.com
Electronic Components
Eligible product submissions for the electronic components category included passive electronic components such as capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas and switches.
Winner
SCi Blocks SiP block converters from Spectrum Control
Honorees
ACS37030 Current Sensor from Allegro MicroSystems
RES60A-Q1 integrated 1.4kV precision resistor divider from Texas Instruments
Industrial Controllers
Technologies considered in this category include PLCs (programmable logic controllers), PACs (programmable automation controllers) and IPCs (industrial PC).
Winner
Failsafe Virtual PLC S7- 1517V F from Siemens
Honorees
Allen-Bradley Logix SIS safety instrumented system from Rockwell Automation
Innovated SIMATIC S7- 1516T/1517/1518 Technology Controllers from Siemens
Machine Vision and Optical Components & Systems
This category includes adaptive optics, optical materials, coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms and freeform optics. Lighting products for machine vision applications, cameras, sensors, lenses, filters, lighting, frame grabbers, software and systems were also considered.
Winner
LMH13000 integrated high-speed lidar laser driver from Texas Instruments
Honorees
Motion Control Components
Eligible product submissions for this category included pneumatic, hydraulic and electric motion control components and systems, including actuators, cylinders, ball screws, motors and drives, and accessories such as fasteners, bearings, gears, belts, and chains, as well as fluids, filters and compressed air systems.
Winner
SIMATIC S7-1200 G2 from Siemens
Honorees
HTI BIMORPH™ µ-Actuators from TDK Hutchison Technology Inc.
ENERGEN™ from Sun Hydraulics, LLC
Production Tools and Systems
This category featured product submissions related to the creation of chips, printed circuit boards, components and systems, as well as all mechanical and machine tool operations, welding, soldering and adhesives focused on metal or component joining, and materials used to fasten and secure components.
Winner
THERMOMARK E.300 DOUBLE from Phoenix Contact
Honorees
Wafer-Scale SWIR Photodetector Platform from Aeluma
Robotics
Single-axis and multi-axis robots for assembly, product inspection and supply chain use, as well as cobots, AGVs (automated guided vehicles) and other robotic transport vehicles were all eligible products in this category. Software related to robotics, including fleet management and robot operating systems, was also considered.
Winner
SIMATIC Robot Pick AI PRO from Siemens
Honorees
KR 1205 Edge Edition from Kassow Robots
SIMATIC Robot Simulator from Siemens
Visualization
Products submitted in this category included HMI (human machine interfaces), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and dashboards.
Winner
SIMATIC S7-1200 G2 NFC iOS App from Siemens
Honorees
About the Author
Sara Jensen
Executive Editor, Power & Motion
Sara Jensen is executive editor of Power & Motion, directing expanded coverage into the modern fluid power space, as well as mechatronic and smart technologies. She has over 15 years of publishing experience. Prior to Power & Motion she spent 11 years with a trade publication for engineers of heavy-duty equipment, the last 3 of which were as the editor and brand lead. Over the course of her time in the B2B industry, Sara has gained an extensive knowledge of various heavy-duty equipment industries — including construction, agriculture, mining and on-road trucks —along with the systems and market trends which impact them such as fluid power and electronic motion control technologies.
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